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WORT Music Playlists

What was that song I heard? Who was the artist, what is the album title, where can I get it? Where can I find the entire playlist for a show?

Click on the Playlists button to bring up a calendar where you can choose any date to find the playlists for that day. If you can’t find the right playlist or the song you’re looking for, your best bet is to call the station the next time that program’s on and ask the host yourself. If that’s not possible we may be able to help you, but please have as much information as possible at hand when you contact us, such as: approximate day and time the music was played, what type or genre of music it was, who hosted the show and any other information you remember about the selection and we’ll do our best to track it down.

Contact Information

Music Director: Sybil Augustine – musicdirector@wortfm.org (for music submissions, charts and tracking, promotional exchanges for music events and following up on volunteer applications or other requests. Please include specifics in your subject line, such as “Hiphop Music Submission” etc, )

Digital Production Director: Aaron Scholz – aaron@wortfm.org (for record donations and sales, promos recording volunteers, etc.)

Music Calendars: Submit your events online here or send by email to calendar@wortfm.org

How do I get my music played on WORT?

We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to musicdirector@wortfm.org.

We do accept digital files on .wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Digital submissions should be .wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s [128-320 kbps.]

You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 608-256-2001 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting—e.g. light, medium, heavy or charting. Thanks and we look forward to hearing your music!

“This isn’t about women’s health. This is about controlling women’s sexuality. Period.”

– Lester Pines on the WI Abortion Bill

Here in Wisconsin, new regulations have been enacted that would restrict the reproductive rights of women.

On Tuesday July 30th, host Carousel Bayrd spoke with Lester Pines, a Senior Partner at Cullen Weston Pines and Bach LLP, about the recent state law to further regulate abortion in many ways. The first part of the law requires women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound and it also requires doctors performing abortions to obtain ‘admitting privileges’ at hospitals within 30 miles within performing an abortion. It was signed into law by Governor Scott Walker over the fourth of July weekend.

On July 5th, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Women’s Medical Services filed a lawsuit claiming that the admitting privileges provision violated their constitutional rights to have an abortion. Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Conley issued a temporary restraining order on July 8th, which was the day that the law would have taken effect. He reissued the temporary restraining order on July 17th and any day now we could be expecting an extension of that restraining order.

Pines is representing Planned Parenthood in this lawsuit. Pines is currently fighting to get some of these restrictions struck down in order to uphold women’s reproductive rights.